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1989: THE FALL OF THE IRON CURTAIN AND THE RETURN OF THE

HUMANOIDS.

Long ago it became clear that the Soviet Empire had begun to crumble long

before the bizarre and indeed incredible article in the Soviet Daily, Tass on

Monday October 10 1989 detailing an account which shocked many in the west

due to its bizarre nature, of course that was the report of an alleged landing of a

UFO in a park in the Soviet city of Voronezh and even stranger still the fact that

unusual looking humanoids exited the craft and apparently interacted with

several local children which were apparently the main witnesses of the event.

Later research by Russian researchers Genrih Silanov, Fyedor Kiselyov, Yuriy

Lozotsev and Alexander Mosolov proved that there had been dozens of other

close encounters and incidents in an around Voronezh starting in August through

January 1990, the results were published in a book appropriately called UFOs in

Voronezh published in 1990.

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Before these events both leaders, Reagan, and Gorbachev spoke about the

possibility of an alien invasion of earth and pointed out that if that happened all

the nations of the earth would unite and do away with their petty political and

geographical differences. Already in the spring of 1989 Hungary had begun to

dismantle its fortified border with Austria, a clear signal that the division of

postwar Europe was coming to an end. And before the astounded eyes of the

world by the end of the year, on December 22 1989 to be exact the Brandenburg

Gate in East Berlin is opened.

After the unprecedented wave of close encounters with humanoids and UFOs

during the decade of the 70s, 1980 signaled a clear slow down of reports or

encounters, they had not completely gone away but there seemed to be less

interest and hence less reports of UFOs and their occupants. This trend appeared

to last until the end of 1988 and the beginning of 1989 when reports of humanoid

encounters exploded, but in undoubtedly unexpected locations, mostly the whole

territory of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In my files alone I have

over 500 high strangeness and humanoid encounters for 1989, more than half

from the former Soviet Union, and for 1990 I have over 600 reports, again more

than half from the former Soviet Union. As the wall crumbled interest in UFOs and

aliens appeared to increase on a daily basis in this vast territory of hundreds of

ethnicities with many accounts of bizarre encounters being published by local

government controlled newspapers and other cases published by private

researchers in their Samizdat newsletters. The wave of encounters, of all types,

began in the former Soviet Union at the end of 1988 and lasted well into late

1997. I will concentrate today on 1989 a years that heralded many changes and

marked the return of the humanoids.

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Figure 1. Typical scenario of close encounter in the former Soviet Union 1989.

The first case I will summarize does not have an exact date, only that it took place in 1989. The witness

was a military man and is typical as to the type of high-strangeness report that would become typical in

1989; also many of the witnesses to these events in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were

military personnel. Did this fact contribute to the rapid changes at the time?

Location. Near Aktash, Altay region, West Siberia, Russia

Date: 1989 Time: night

According to the testimony of retired Major I. A. Samoilenko a soldier of the local frontier guard

detachment had disappeared from his night watch. The military immediately organized a search, but it

brought no results. But three days later the missing frontier guard was found 5km from the

mountainous settlement of Aktash. The soldier was very frightened, physically exhausted and could not

explain any details of what had occurred. After a long rehabilitation period and therapy on him

conducted by officers of a special military KGB detachment, the frontier guard remembered that during

his night watch a bright flash of light had blinded him and after that he had lost consciousness. When he

returned to his senses, he found himself in a strange room with walls that emitted an even bluish light

with no visible source. Suddenly a voice from nowhere, that resembled that of the voice of a female or

child, greeted him and warned him that he would be taken on a long journey. After that it told the

soldier that if he were selected for that honorable mission he would be helping a distant civilization very

similar to humans in many aspects and located in the Gemini constellation. After that was said, the

soldier lost consciousness again. He vaguely remember that next he saw several humanoid figures

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without faces leaning over him and examining his body. He was then exposed to attacks of sudden

unbearable pain during this medical examination. After that he fell into a state of powerful euphoria

and bliss, as if being narcotized. After examination at a local military hospital a commission found him

mentally unstable or insane. And one and a half month later the unfortunate died of a fulminating illness

similar to exposure to high doses of radiation. (1)

The next case deals with another aspect of the encounters and reports of the time, that of

ongoing contacts by the same witness and of very powerful and beneficial after-effects on the

witness, in contrast with the first case. It is also an example of the supposed aliens or

humanoids identifying their place of origin.

Location. Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region, Russia

Date: 1989 Time: night

Strange and mysterious events began occurring in the home a local resident named Tamara,

unexplained disappearances of metallic objects, sounds and knockings from an unknown origin. At times

Tamara and her guests felt the presence of huge tall men or entities in the room that were watching

all the proceedings. One night Tamara saw a small star-shaped object flying amid her room. Her fear

suddenly changed to strange tranquility or expectation of something good about to happen. Several

days later, again in the dark, she again saw the star floating in midair 50cm above the floor. She

watched the star-shaped light stopped by the front door. Once there, a screen appeared, resembling

that of a TV screen, but much smaller in size. In both sides of the screen she noticed unknown symbols,

and geometrical figures black in color, triangles, squares, circles, etc. Soon after, faces began appearing

on the screen; in the bottom section she saw a male face with beautiful, perfect features, with a non-

human peachy color skin. He wore a silver cap that was tight fitting on his head. He had large beautiful

eyes that stared at Tamara in a benevolent manner, full of understanding. Two other faces were clearly

seen above. One of them was humanoid bluish in color, with closely set eyes, which looked intently at

Tamara. This alien began a telepathic conversation with the witness. The other alien face was more

Asiatic in appearance, but with round dark eyes without whites. The face was somewhat unpleasant to

her; she felt something it was some kind of biological robot. Later UFO researchers from the Yaroslavl

group showed her pictures of alien portraits and she was able to identify some of them. She does not

remember how much time she communicated and how much information was given to her. Only the

feeling of trust and quiet communication remained. She distinctly remembered saying the following

words, I wish to be cured, if that happens, I could help people the rest of my life. Soon the screen

switched off the same way it was originally activated. In the morning nothing was evident of what had

occurred the night before, except for the scorched flowers on the windowsill and the witness felt her

hands burning in an unexplained manner, she wanted to do something, to help someone. Apparently

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her contacts continued and she was told she was communicating with the forces of light, or

representatives from a civilization in the Orion constellation. (2)

The next case again involves a military witness, this time a member of the elite

KGB border guards. Again there is no exact date, only 1989:

Location. Near Bagrationovsk, Kaliningrad region, Russia

Date: 1989 Time: late night

Near the Polish border a UFO apparently abducted a frontier guard from the

Soviet KGB frontier troops. The soldier was on night patrol near the border

with Poland when he saw a tall humanoid entity without a neck

approaching his location from a nearby forest. The entity appeared

completely black, apparently wearing a tight-fitting black outfit. It was very

tall no less than 3 meters in height. The stunned soldier challenged the

strange figure threatening to shoot, but the entity did not appear to react. The

soldier then fired some warning shots into the air, but this also did not make

any impression on the strange figure. Finally the soldier fired at the figure

hoping to wound it or kill it. Incredibly the bullets did not appear to have

any effect on the figure and it continued to move towards the soldier. The

terrified soldier then apparently lost consciousness. Later all he could

remember was seeing a large black cylinder-shaped object in the sky and a

bright light. KGB experts inspected the scene of the encounter and found

eleven spent cartridges from the soldiers Kalashnikov. Additionally an area

of flattened grass and broken tree branches was found. According to the

investigators it appeared that the branches have been broken off as if

something had suddenly risen from the ground upwards at very high speed.

Large footprints were also located. Other locals have reported fireballs over the

forest and strange glows deep within the forest. (3)

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The following (alleged) report also involves military witnesses and this time at a

secret military installation or missile base:

Location. Kozelsk strategic missile base, Kaluga region, central Russia

Date: January 10 1989 Time: night

This remarkable incident occurred at a strategic missile site south of Moscow. This base contained SS-11

rockets (Sego class according to NATO) with nuclear warheads. (This regiment was disbanded in 1991).

The witnesses were 2 privates and one sergeant. A lone one sentry stood alone on top of the sentry

tower (about 6-8meters high) made out of brick and connected to the white one story building the

housed the other soldiers. And nearby was positioned the SS-11 shaft or silo. A sergeant and another

sentry were in the guard house. Suddenly these heard a very loud knocking sound on the roof of the

sentry box. The sergeant then called the sentry on the tower to turn the projector on the roof of the

sentry house. He did and reportedly didnt see anything unusual. Everything was then silent. The

projector of light was then returned to its original position (on top of the silo). But again the two other

soldiers heard the loud knocking sounds and suddenly the sentry door was flung open, even though it

had been bolted shut. At this point three humanoid entities appeared before the stunned soldiers at the

door. All three were about 1.50m in height; one was red in color, and the other two white (they could not

tell if the coloring was a result of clothing or skin). The sergeant, who was standing further away from

the humanoids attempted to climb up the wall to a window after seeing the creatures. The other soldier

stood in the middle of the room staring in shocked disbelief. He looked at the terrified sergeant and then

back at the entities and did this one more time but the last time when he looked back at the entities they

had disappeared. The door was now closed and somehow bolted shut. After a few minutes the soldiers

called the chief of the watch and wrote an official report describing unknown trespassers in a restricted

guarded nuclear arms facility. A month later there were rumors that at an air defense installation in

Kazakhstan was also visited by three humanoids which managed to take a Kalashnikov rifle from one of

the sentries and exchanged it for one without a serial number (?). (4)

The next case is from another city in the former Soviet Union, Rostov-on-Don,

which had more than its share of encounters and incidents during the incredible

wave of 1989-1990. It has to do with a type of event known to western

researchers as a bedroom visitation which were very common during the Soviet

wave.

Location. Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Date: late February 1989 Time: evening

Local resident Ludmila Yanshina was watching the evening television when she suddenly heard the

anguish cries of her young daughter, sleeping at the moment in the adjacent room. She rushed in and

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found the girl crying hysterically. The girl told her mother that while she slept she was suddenly awoken

as something pushed her. She sat on the bed filled with fright and looked around the darkened room.

There was an area of scattered light directly in front of the bed and within the light stood a medium

height figure, similar to a man wearing a tight fitting divers suit, bulging as if filled with air. It had a

round large helmet similar to a balloon which left its face exposed. The suit was dark in color. The face

was also dark and according to the girl it was apparently a female but with thin long whiskers hanging

under the nose. Terrified the girl asked who she was; the only answer was a strange growling sound.

Continuing to growl it suddenly rose up into the air floating in the middle of the bedroom. Terrified the

girl hid under the blankets and waited. The growling noise stopped and the girl looked from under the

blanket hoping that the strange creature had gone. But the figure, now slightly glowing still stood in the

room. Terrified the girl now yelled, Please leave! I am afraid! Seconds later the head of the humanoid

disappeared leaving behind only the bulging body now floating in mid-air, rocking back and forth. The

girl continued to scream as the figure moved back and appeared to decrease in size becoming the size of

a fly until it completely vanished. The girl continued screaming terrified after that. (5)

The next case contains another common theme during the events of 1989-1990 in

the former Soviet Union that is the cure claim by the witness or witnesses after

having a close contact with a humanoid or a UFO. This case was among the first

known in the west from that region:

Location. Krasnoperekopsk, Crimea, Ukraine

Date: April 18 1989 Time: night

A terminally ill patient staying at the cardiology ward of a local hospital suddenly felt a strong wind

which penetrated the room, even though the doors were closed. A dazzling white light and a man

dressed in white then appeared. The mans eyes radiated a brilliant light. The witness asked where he

was from and was told they were from the tenth dimension. She was then told that she would soon be

able to walk, after that was said the man and the light disappeared. The next day other witnesses saw

strange white and red lights moving slowly along the body of the terminally ill patient, who then heard a

loud clear voice telling her to get up and leave. She was able to do so and is now apparently cured. (6)

It is interesting to note that the entity or humanoid did not claimed to have been

an extraterrestrial but that he hailed from the tenth dimension, wherever that

may be.

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The next incident was from the former Soviet republic of the Ukraine now an

independent country and an area which experienced hundreds of UFO and

humanoid encounters during 1989 through 1992:

Location. Near Zhitlovka, Dnepropetrovsk region, Ukraine

Date: April 30 1989 Time: 2300

During numerous UFO observations by local residents of the Pobeda (Victory) collective farm,

between the villages of Zhitlovka and Kudashevo several boys noticed three entities dressed in entirely

bright red clothes; one was taller than the other two, appeared dwarf-like. When they boys attempted

to sneak up to the entities in order to obtain a closer look, they experienced severe headaches, and one

boy began bleeding from his nose. The boys became frightened and fled the area. The UFO observed by

the other witnesses, was disc-shaped, with blinking, blue, red and green-violet lights. The disk emitted 2

fiery beams of light and zoomed up into the sky at high speed. Other boys watched a smaller disk

separate from the larger one, and then flying away with the larger object. (7)

Of course Vladimir Azhaha was at the time one the pioneering Ufologists in the

disintegrating Soviet Union. The next report represents yet another old Soviet

republic which eventually also declared its independence that is the republic of

Georgia which was still another region ripe with close encounters and UFO

reports during 1989-1990.

Location. Near Ortachala, south of Tblissi, Georgia

Date: May-June 1989 Time: evening

Several witnesses, including 9-year old Evgeniy Nikolaevich Gigauri and an older friend observed the

flight of a round silvery object near this hamlet. When the object approached their position in appeared

to be a silver oval-shaped craft that was semi-transparent in the center. They could see a humanoid

entity inside. The entity resembled an elderly man wearing silvery clothing, which emitted a faint light.

The man was in a sitting position, typical that of a driver or chauffeur, but visibly he appeared not to be

operating any controls---his immovable hands were positioned on his knees or on some panel that was

only faintly visible. No other details of the objects interior could be seen. The object was about 1.5-2

meters high and flew very low over the witnesss heads. The UFO turned slowly and flew towards the

mountains south of Tblissi. The youngsters rushed to tell their parents what they had seen. (8)

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The next case in our list also involves military personnel and appears to have been

an abduction from the heavily visited area of Rostov on Don:

Location. Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Date: May 1989 Time: unknown

Two soldiers were returning to their unit, which was the radio or communications center of the city

located on the outskirts between the Northern cemetery and the former city dump. But only one of the

soldiers made it back to his unit. And he could not understand or remember what had occurred to the

other soldier. The second soldier returned the next day around the same time. He was in a confused

state. At first he could only remember that he had lost sight of the other soldier and was very stunned

when he was told he had been gone for 24 hours. Later after resting and relaxing he remembered

appearing inside a lighted sphere. There he met strange entities wearing white clothing and carrying

strange devices. The entities communicated with him telepathically and he understood them perfectly.

The entities apparently gave him something to eat and then sent him back. He came to his senses on his

way back to the communications center around the same place where he had lost sight of his partner. In

an attempt to prove the reality of the event the soldier drew sketches of what he saw inside the sphere.

He was then sent to a rehabilitation center in the Moscow area. Later his superiors decided that he his

mental status was troubling. Soon after his discharge papers arrived at the communications post and

he was never seen or heard from again. (9)

It is interesting to note how military witnesses were treated after these

anomalous encounters, some like the above witness were never heard from

again. The next case is from another one of those Eastern European countries

that were part of the changes to come and also experienced numerous

encounters and sightings. This case appears involve an atypical bedroom

visitation.

Location. Gyomaendrod, Hungary

Date: May 1989 Time: night

A man was woken up by strange muttering and whispering sounds. He then

turned to see standing at the foot of his bed a bizarre figure about 130cm

tall, with large ears and wearing green coveralls. The creature was staring at

him with large unblinking eyes. Terrified he grabbed a shovel next to his bed

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and attempted to strike the figure. As he lowered the shovel it suddenly

stopped in mid-air as if striking an invisible wall. The figure then vanished

in plain sight. (10)

The next case also involves an Eastern European country

which was also part of the upcoming changes and of the

unrelenting UFO wave in Eastern Europe and the former

Soviet Union. It seems to have been a high strangeness

incident involving an otherworldly journey:

Location. Katnik, Bulgaria

Date: May 18 1989 Time: 23:00

The witness, Jiril Jakimov who had previously taken photos of apparent UFOs (in February) was picking

herbs in order to make some infusions when he saw a UFO proceeding slowly over a nearby chestnut

tree. The object came towards him and Jiril became frightened as the object started to turn just above

him. He was able to hear some bizarre crackling noise emanating from the core of the machine also the

object was emitting light. He then attempted to take a photo but the camera suddenly failed. Suddenly a

noise struck his ears and he felt a violent pain in his skull. He then saw four small asterisks in rotation

like a swarm of bees, they were turning above his head, and he felt ill. At this moment he perceived a

whitish blue mist in the sky and small stars, and then the light source disappeared. Suddenly he found

himself in a mist and when he opened his eyes he was in a sort of desolate landscape with large craters

and some bluish-white mountains in the distance.

There was thousands of flying light sources as well as some small humanoid beings of about 1m in

height. Others were bluish with green eyes, and others were bounding along like grasshoppers,

resembling robotic movements. Next he was transported towards a kind of laboratory having the

appearance of crystal from which shone numerous light sources like stars, the small blue creatures

attempted to communicate with him. Next the luminous source, which he had seen at the beginning of

the encounter reappeared and carried him away. It was as if he was sucked up in the midst of the light

and there he heard an incomprehensible language. Suddenly he felt the hardness of the ground on

which he was lying and everything had disappeared. He was not capable of estimating the time which

had elapsed between the moment when he saw the object and when he found himself lying down on

the ground, to this day he is still unable to say. (11)

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The next event is beyond high strangeness, perhaps several levels or so, but it

seems to have been the norm in most of the reported cases of contact in the

former Soviet Union. There is no exact date only that it occurred in the summer

of 1989 and again the witness was military personnel in this case a submarine

officer:

Location. Far East, Russia

Date: Summer 1989 Time: daytime

A Soviet Naval Submarine officer, D.A. had gone on a hunting expedition into the taiga and ascended to

the top of a hill when they noticed something resembling a rolled up waterproof canvas-tent. Having

forgotten their own at home they helped themselves to this seemingly abandoned tent. They prepared

to spend the night there near a bonfire. Soon they noticed a strange cloud that hovered over them for a

long time. The cloud was very low, just below head level, & perpendicular to the ground. D.A. struck the

cloud with his fist and felt a strong repellent force. Then, taking a running jump he flew shoulder first

into the cloud. After flying through the cloud the witness found himself in an unknown location. While

on the hill it had been evening and cold, the place where he was now was covered with bright sunshine

and hot, he also felt hot sand under his feet. Instead of bushes he saw trees resembling palms. He could

not see a river anywhere but saw what appeared to be a large ocean; he was apparently standing close

to seashore. Soon D.A. saw an amazing car approach his location, he had never seen such a similar

vehicle before. There were 3 persons in the vehicle, a man and two women. They greeted the witness in

perfect Russian and invited him for a short drive. He agreed, feeling no fear just curiosity. Soon they

arrived at what appeared to be a kind of laboratory. When they entered the lab the strangers called

him over Hey military man (he was wearing a military shirt) and kindly asked him to take some tests,

which he agreed to do. He was asked many different questions which D.A. patiently answered. He then

dared to ask the strangers who they were. He was told that they hailed from the 21st

century (what

year?) and added that if he wanted he could stay with them. D.A. refused mentioning his wife, family

and children. Well, many people disappear (!), said the strangers and soon brought him back into the

very same blanket-like cloud that hovered close to the ground at the same location. There D.A. asked

another question, Here we have many troubles, changes, Perestroika etc, what will happen? The

stranger then assured him that everything would be fine. He passed through the cloud without any

hindrance and appeared in the same hill. His friend met him in a very excited state, screaming, Where

have you been? Didnt you hear me calling you? He was obviously very irate. They then both sat near

the fire and talked about what had occurred. Suddenly a wave of fear swept over the men, and both

gazed towards the bushes; they believed that the origin of the fear was located within those bushes.

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D.A.s friend took out his rifle and yelled to whomever he thought was hiding behind the bushes,

threatening to shoot him or it. Nothing was heard in response. He shot into the bushes and the fear

suddenly dissipated. (12)

In the above case the strangers whoever they could have been apparently knew

of the changes that were occurring or about to occur soon. The next case was

reported by one of the first western UFO researchers who traveled to the former

Soviet Union after the fall of the curtain that was of course the veteran Jacques

Vallee. The case is indeed bizarre and has more of a supernatural slant than an

extraterrestrial context.

Location. Gorky Province, Russia

Date: Summer 1989 Time: evening

In a remote wooded area the daughter of a forester was sitting on a windowsill in her cabin with her

back to an open field when suddenly two black-gloved hands grabbed her by the waist and tried to drag

her outside. She turned her head and saw that arms were apparently holding her alone, seemingly

attached to a vague and diffused area. Her dog began howling and rushed towards the window. She was

then released, her father then arrived armed with a gun, but the intruder had by now already gone. (13)

The next case in our list was one of the first cases that appeared in the western

media but was mostly ignored it again involved a number of children just like

the Voronezh events of September:

Location. Konantsevo, Vologda region, Russia

Date: June 6 1989 Time: afternoon

A group of children playing outside the village observed an approaching luminous sphere in the sky. The

sphere landed on a meadow and rolled next to a nearby river. The sphere then seemed to split open and

a tall headless figure with long arms and wearing dark clothing emerged. At that moment the sphere

vanished and the being began walking towards the village, but he also seemed to fade away. Moments

later three more similar spheres landed and similar beings emerged and they also became invisible. (14)

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The next case involves strange figures that appeared to have the capability to

walk on water.

Location. Kharovsk, Vologda region Russia

Date: June 6 1989 Time: night

45-year old V. A. Kurkov and his son were fishing on a local lake on a boat about 300 meters from shore.

The weather was bad, with strong wind and large waves. Suddenly they saw what appeared to be two

human like silhouettes. At first Kurkov did not pay much attention to them, and thought that there were

some strange fishermen who dared to fish in the center of the lake in the middle of a storm. Then he

stood up and didnt see a boat under the strange fishermen which appeared to be standing right on

the surface of the water at full height. Both men watched stunned as the shiny figures appeared to

approach their location, walking on the water. Suddenly the man-like figure that was closer became

extremely shiny. The light was so bright that it hurt the witnesses eyes, as the figures began flashing

brightly the two men turned their boat around and began moving to shore. Then the figures

transformed into a bright light that floated along the coast of the lake and disappeared. (15)

The next case comes from the city of Leningrad (soon to be known again as St.

Petersburg) and it involves a type of very tall almost gigantic humanoid type

entity which was very frequently reported during the 1989-1990 wave, it was also

one of those instances in which a technique known a biolocation was used by

researchers. http://biolocation.com/theory.htm

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Figure 2. Type of humanoid frequently reported during the 1989-1990 wave in the former Soviet Union.

Location. Leningrad (St Petersburg) Russia

Date: June 19 1989 Time: 01:00 a.m.

Tamara Mikhailovna Krasikova a worker at the local LenKarz plant was sitting on a bench near house

number 70 on Farforovskiy Street. To right of the houses is the Leningrad-Moscow railway. The sky was

dark and covered with clouds, there wasnt anybody else around. Suddenly from the railway station a

woman about 35-years of age, in a dark green jacket carrying a handbag approached and said, I shall sit

a while, I will rest before going home. So both women sat talking. The last train soon past by them.

Suddenly from above house # 64 a red light began flashing illuminating half of the houses in an eerie red

light. Both women then arose from the bench thinking somebody had flung something burning from one

of the trains. However as they watched closely they saw a saucer shaped craft quickly descending from

the sky. Before touching the ground, the saucer put down two landing props and landed on them. At

once, the top of the saucer-shaped craft began expanding, inflating like a rubber ball. Light from the

landed saucer illuminated the surroundings like daytime. Suddenly near the saucer a very tall figure or

humanoid appeared. Where it had come from the women could not be sure because of the strong light.

Near this first humanoid a second similar figure but much shorter appeared and near them two or three

similar smaller figures were moving. The women could not see any exact features as a result of the

blinding light. The tall alien figure then separated from the other figures and walked towards the

direction of the two women. Terrified the women in the green jacket turned and ran from the area.

However Tamara Krasikova who also wanted to escape was unable to move because of her weak legs.

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So she remained where she stood. The tall alien figure quickly approached and then passed by Krasikova

totally ignoring her. The humanoid was twice the height of a normal man (3.5m). He had a powerful

body, with wide shoulders, a short neck with a large head but of normal proportion to the rest of the

body. The humanoids face was wide, white and smooth. His chin was round. On his eyes the humanoid

wore black rectangular glasses or goggles. The aliens forehead was not visible since it was covered by a

skintight helmet or hood; the ears were also not visible. The humanoids hands were normal and it was

wearing black gloves. It bent its legs as it walk like a normal human, but the humanoids feet were larger

than a normal human resembling large flippers. When the aliens feet touched the ground, red shining

balls rolled from under its feet and then disappeared. The witness didnt remember hearing any sound

or noises, everything seemed silent. The humanoid did not stop near the witness and continued to walk

between some nearby houses using very long strides. He walked between houses 64 and 66 and looked

to the right and then the left before continuing on quickly disappearing from sight. Krasikova tried to see

where the giant had gone to but could not see him anywhere. Krasikova then went home and looked

out the window and everything was now gone, the saucer, the humanoids, and the light had

disappeared. Around the same time a worker at the local plant had seen a figure of huge height wearing

black tight-fitting overalls.

Biolocation research conducted in the area by V.P. Kochegarov and L.K. Grokhov revealed the presence

of several abnormal areas which had not been connected with the described events. A number of local

residents observed a luminescence in the sky and other flying objects with caused strong interference to

local television telecasting. (16)

While the next case did not actually involved a humanoid or even a humanoid

entity it illustrates the types of events being reported almost on a daily basis

throughout the vast territory of the former Soviet Union, there was

undoubtedly something weird afoot during the time of incredible changes

occurring in the region at the time:

Location. Near Togliatti, Russia

Date: June 26 1989 Time: 21:15

A strange sight was reported by several witnesses in the area as they spotted in the storm clouds an

almost perfect square hole. A bright beam of light appeared around its perimeter it flared up and then

went out in flash. After that in the square window on the clouds a picture appeared. It was of a

landscape of a bay bounded by a low ridge, surrounded by forested hills. A chain of sand dunes next to

the waters is also visible. Over this foreign world the sky appeared to be lit up much brighter than ours.

Within 15 minutes the field of view is slowly rotated in the horizontal plane, hiding the hills and waters

of the bay. Suddenly above in the foreign sky appeared a set of black dots, which are not possible to see

in detail, soon the clouds began to move covering up this strange opening. (17)

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The next case describes a type of entity that was reported on very few occasions

in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the 1989-1990 wave, we

are talking of course about grays or gray type entity very popular in western

abduction accounts specially in the U.S.A. The fate of the witnesses is also a

matter of concern:

Figure 3. Your typical gray 'alien'.

Location. Near Vladivostok, Russia

Date: July 1989 Time: unknown

12 witnesses observed the appearance of strange entities cavorting on the seashore near the city of

Vladivostok. The witness reported that the appearance of the creatures was repugnant. The witnesses

described the entities as typical grays about 1 meter in height, with absolutely hairless heads, and

lipless mouths. At first the witnesses thought they had stumbled upon a group of circus freaks dwarfs

but upon closer inspection realized that they were indeed totally alien in nature. During the next 7 years

investigators for VAUFON attempted to track all 12 of the witnesses with startling grim results. 3 of the

witnesses had been killed in car accidents, 5 had been diagnosed with brain tumors in which two had

already required surgery. Two others were located in a mental institution, and the two remaining others

had apparently disappeared without a trace. (18)

The next case is again from the former Soviet Republic of the Ukraine and is from

the Crimean Peninsula which had more than its share of bizarre encounters and

sightings:

Location. Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine

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Date: July 1989 Time: 04:00 a.m.

The 50-year old female witness living in the western part of town in a multi-storied house suddenly felt

strong chest pains and walked to the balcony for a breath of fresh air. Suddenly she noticed a globe-

shaped object descending from the sky to a nearby yard. The object was about 3-5 meters in diameter.

Three humanoid figures stepped out of the object and walked off to different sides of the object. The

aliens were tall, about 2 meters in height, dressed in tight-fitting silver suits. More details could not be

seen since it was dark and the witness was dozens of meters away. Five minutes later all three aliens

returned to the object, entered it and the craft zoomed up and vanished. The witness apparently woke

her husband who apparently also witnessed the event. (19)

The following event is one of the first cases reported in the Voronezh region and

it involves a theme that was repeated on numerous occasions in dozens of

contacts reported in the 1989-1990 wave, that of dire warnings of upcoming

ecological disasters on earth, or enormous unavoidable earth changes:

Location. Semidesyatnoye, Khokholskiy area, Voronezh region Russia

Date: July 1989 Time: afternoon

Farm equipment operator Fedor Ivanovich Molokanov was out in the fields operating a tractor when

suddenly and without any apparent reason the engine stalled. He exited the cab and looked under the

hood to check what the problem was. Suddenly he heard a voice coming from behind him, Your

machine is Ok, I made it stop working, and I wanted to have a talk with you. Turning around he was

confronted by a figure wearing silvery overalls, bronze-colored boots and a helmet on his head. The

humanoid was about 3 meters in height, and looked strangely one-dimensional. The stranger spoke

again, Your planet---was the most excellent planet known to us in this part of the universe. And then

he added cryptically, However you have brought it to a disastrous state. Life on Earth will die. In 20

years an ecological disaster awaits the earth (2009?). He told the astonished witness that if he agreed

to go with them, he would be saved. The witness demurred, explaining to the stranger that he was an

old sick man of 60 years. The stranger then pointed out that in his planet the average lifespan was 130

years. Terrified the witness waved his hands angrily and told the stranger to leave. Moments later the

humanoid pointed a tube-like device toward the witness and then walked into a nearby landed semi-

transparent bluish object, a hatch opened on the object and a hissing sound was heard, the humanoid

entered the craft and sat on a chair then craft then soundlessly melted into the sky. After the encounter,

Molokanov refused to leave the house for several days and was taken to the local hospital suffering

from hypertension. He only told his closest associates what had occurred. (20)

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The next case is also from a former Soviet Republic, this time the Baltic country of

Estonia:

Location. Kohtu, Harju County Estonia

Date: July 1989 Time: evening

A woman and her adult daughter were watching TV when they heard a loud knock at the window.

Looking at the window they saw the upper body of a man. They thought that the intruder must have

been standing on a ladder. Both women approached the window and obtained a closer look at the man.

He wore a dark gray divers suit, which had a broad white band that ran over his shoulders and arm. The

tall figure was quickly retreating from the window moving diagonally away. They could not discern any

facial features. At one point the strange figure turned around with its back to the witnesses and seemed

to quickly glide away from the area. (21)

The next case is also from Rostov-on-Don and appears to have involved the type

of humanoid known in familiar UFO parlance as a Nordic type entity:

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Figure 4. Sample of Nordic type 'alien' entity.

Location. Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Date: July 1989 Time: 2100

A local woman named Natalya Vladimirovna living in the Chkalova area of the city, noticed a bright

green light in the sky, it was funnel shaped broader at the top and narrower at the bottom, it shed light

towards the ground. Over the light she noticed a round oval-shaped or disk-shaped object, encircled by

a rim, with a blue greenish circumference and several (9-10) blue lights on its surface. Natalyas 5-year

old son later told her that he saw a huge disk with a cabin that landed on a nearby copse. The disk

landed on 3 props, it had sloping edges and a flattened cupola on top. Several humanoids dressed in

black coveralls exited the craft and were doing something near it. The boy described the humanoids as

being human like, tall and with blond hair (Nordic type). Both witnesses possibly experienced abduction

and missing time. (22)

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The next report is one of the best known contact cases from the Ukraine and the

former Soviet Union during the period of 1989-1990.

Location. Kiev, Ukraine

Date: July 4 1989 Time: afternoon

Two women, one named Vera Ignatenko, and a young girl were walking along a canal near some woods

when they saw three men approaching on a strange silvery boat in the canal. The beings were man-

like, wore shiny collarless suits, both had identical pale faces, long golden hair, and large radiant eyes.

The beings approached the trio and spoke in pure ancient Slavic language (a defunct language spoken in

old Russia) apparently wanting the witnesses to come with them to their planet. The beings claimed

that they took one person from earth each day. The beings then walked with the women to a nearby

hovering silvery barrel-shaped craft with an antenna on top. The women attempted to run away but

could not, feeling a tingling sensation and were unable to scream either. The beings apparently decided

against taking the three women and released them, they then entered the object via a stepladder.

Before leaving, the beings demonstrated a holographic model of the solar system with a tenth planet to

the witnesses and warned that electromagnetic emissions from and radio signals being transmitted into

space attracted many negative alien cultures who are arriving on earth uninvited with the aim to exploit

the planet for their own interests. The craft then left quickly and silently. Ignatenko was to have further

contacts. (23)

The next case details another contact case this time from the former Soviet

republic of Georgia; it involves some bizarre elements as similar cases were now

coming from all corners of the Empire:

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Figure 5. Description of entity in the Georgia contact case.

Location. Mtacminda Park, Tbilissi, Georgia (USSR)

Date: July 4 1989 Time: 2100

The main witness was driving a girlfriend home when he experienced car trouble. He left to get water

for the radiator and upon returning the girl was gone. Near the park he saw a woman that was

apparently trying to stop the car, he kept driving looked back and the woman was gone. He kept driving

when the engine of the car suddenly stopped again. He exited the car and felt a strange oppressive

atmosphere in the air. He then began to walk on the dark road. Suddenly 200 meters ahead he noticed a

landed silvery disc-shaped object standing on three metallic legs. The craft was surrounded by multi-

colored lights and at the bottom there were stairs and illuminated windows. Standing 15 meters away

from the craft were four three-meter tall man-like figures. The witness felt attracted to the figures, and

was not scared, he kept walking towards them. One of the figures approached the witness and

attempted to establish contact, speaking in Russian the humanoid asked several questions. The

humanoids wore a silvery uniform that completely covered them except for their faces, a dark belt, and

dark boots. They had dark oval eyes and very small noses. The witness indicated that he was late getting

home, one of the humanoids then entered the object and retrieved a strange hand held device with

different colored lights and hieroglyphic like inscriptions. The witness was made to understand that it

was some type of phone and apparently he was able to dial his home number. The humanoid then took

the instrument away and walked back into the object. Coming out he told the witness that they wanted

him to go with them. Inside the object the witness saw a TV like apparatus, where he apparently was

able to see his internal organs working. After a while one of the humanoids told the witness that he was

free to go home. He exited the object and sitting in his car saw the object retrieve the stairs and lift into

the air. Emitting a low humming sound the object shot quickly away. The car then started and the

Comment [asr1]: An alien

cellphone??? Incredible I think cell phones

were not yet available to the general public

in the former USSR in 1989.

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witness drove home. The witness noticed that all four humanoids had a red colored bulb in their chest

area that was apparently used as a transmitting and translating device. (24)

As the year 1989 progressed appeared it appeared that things were getting out of

control in more ways than one in the former Soviet Union as the following report

illustrates:

Location. Solnechny Perm region, Russia

Date: middle of July 1989 Time: unknown

At a summer camp several children encountered humanoids with large eyes in a wooded area. One of

the boys threw stones at one of the creatures, but was shot at by some type of beam or laser that set

the surrounding fields on fire. None of the boys were apparently injured. Around the same time

motorists in the same area reported seeing what appeared to be the figure of a girl walking on a road as

they approached it they were horrified to see that it was a creature with a bear-like snout instead of a

face. Children at nearby Kukushtane reported seeing a landed saucer-shaped type craft and several

Minotaurs walking around it. (25)

The next case is from another of the former Soviet Republics turned independent

country in this case, Belarus, which was not immune to the changes and other

anomalous events in the region:

Location. Belevic State Farm, Mogilev, Belarus (USSR)

Date: July 25 1989 Time: afternoon

The witness, Vasily Zaitsev had driven his tractor to the edge of a birch forest near the farm in order to

pick some mushrooms. After finishing he came out and was surprised to see at about 200 meters away a

bronze colored object shaped like a childs top, flattened on top and bottom hovering at about 4 meters

from the ground. Thinking he might be hallucinating he rubbed his eyes but the object was still there.

Near the object stood two beings both about 2 meters tall also wearing shiny bronze colored

uniforms. While Vasily watched, his hair stood on end and afraid he hid behind a nearby haystack and

watched the scene from there.

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The two beings stood around for a while and then returned to their hovering craft. Soon there was a

sound like a muffled exhaust and the mysterious object moved sideways, gained speed and disappeared

from sight. Later Zaitsev and a co-worker searched for traces of the object and found none. (26)

As the month of August came along things were evidently becoming stranger and

the reports appeared to become more outlandish and unbelievable. This is from a

region that before 1986 there were few known reports (in the west) and even

fewer reports of humanoid encounters, of course with a few exceptions thanks to

the work of pioneering researcher Felix Ziegel. The following reports illustrate the

absurdity and incredible bizarre nature of the alleged contacts:

Figure 6. Perhaps what the Russian female entity looked like.

Location. Sharya, near Yaroslavl, Russia

Date: August 1989 Time: 10:00 a.m.

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Two witnesses, including E. V., were collecting mushrooms in a field when they suddenly came upon an

injured hare. One of the witnesses picked up the hare to see what was wrong when she heard English

speech from behind her. Looking up she saw a woman wearing a gray suit and brown boots. She had

European features with long flowing brown hair and gray skin. While attempting to communicate with

the stranger E. V. was unable to understand her and heard various incomprehensible dialects. Then the

woman appeared to press something invisible on her breast, and immediately the witness heard

different speech in several languages, Georgian, Baltic and finally in Russian. The woman said, Do you

love animals? The witness said yes and began petting the hare then fed it some pastry. She offered the

stranger a pastry, which she gladly accepted and ate, she then asked the witness what it was, since she

had founded very tasteful. The woman then turned her attention on the mushrooms and asked for

some for her to take. At this point the witness noticed a man standing nearby, similarly dressed. The

woman made a gesture to the man not to approach. One of the witnesses then invited the strange

woman to come with them, but she declined. Soon a luminous screen with images appeared on the

womans breast and she ordered the witnesses to turn around and walk away, not to look back.

Obediently they did and as they walked away they perceived a strong vibration. When they turned

around both strangers had disappeared. A local inspector had reported seeing a strange cloud

exhibiting bizarre behavior over the forest. The next day, footprints clearly showing the strangers

footwear were discovered in the field. (27)

Location. Vologda region, Russia

Date: August 1989 Time: daytime

Vyacheslav Gorbunov who collected pitch in the swampy areas of the region for the

manufacture of turpentine and other chemicals lived in an isolated cabin when one

day, in broad daylight he encountered a strange humanoid creature that approached

him, the witness was not frightened and reported that the appearance of the

humanoid reminded him of a dolphin. He had blue skin and was slightly taller than an

average human. The humanoid communicated with Gorbunov through telepathy and

was invited to a nearby clearing where a round silvery object stood on the ground.

Once inside Gorbunov met another peasant woman who had been apparently also

invited onboard. Soon the humanoid approached both Gorbunov and the unknown

woman and invited both to accompany them to their planet to live there. The

woman immediately agreed, but Gorbunov refused and told the humanoid that he

had family in Odessa and could not leave them behind. In a few minutes Gorbunov

and the humanoid exited the silvery object and the witness found himself in a totally

different location apparently in another planet, where he saw numerous peaceful

scenes, of children playing, meadows and water fountains. Soon Gorbunov asked to

be returned home and the aliens deposited him back near his cabin in the forest. After

returning home Gorbunov was no longer a recluse and decided that his mission in life

was to help people, in less than 2 years he began to draw beautiful surreal scenes

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apparently of otherworldly landscapes from alien planets. His paintings were exhibited

in numerous locations throughout the Russian Federation. (28)

We are left to ask, What became of the peasant woman who decided to remain

behind? This next report also involves a military witness:

Location. Olga settlement, Balyuzak Peninsula, Russia

Date: August 1989 Time: 2200

The witness, soldier P. Ivus was outside washing his military vehicle when she noticed at about 300-400

meters away a bright light in the forest area. Soon out of the forest, a figure stepped out. It seemed to

move rapidly rocking from side to side; its height was about 2.30 meters, with long dangling arms, and a

head directly on its shoulders with no visible neck. It was wearing a tight-fitting white one-piece suit.

The witness watched in shock unable to move as the figure pass behind a knoll. Then from another

direction three more similar figures appeared, these moved about rather quickly, seemingly scrutinizing

the fields. At this point a friend of the witness drove up in a car and honked several times, this

apparently frightened the creatures, which soon disappeared into the forest. The next morning the

witness found large tracks or footprints in the soft soil measuring about 45 cm in length. (29)

This next case investigated by veteran Russian Ufologist Mikhail Gershtein

among others has sinister implications to say the least:

Location. Malye Shory, Lebyazhskiy area, Kirov region, Russia

Date: August 1989 Time: night

A local resident of this village on the banks of the River Vyatka woke up one sultry night to drink some

water. The window of the kitchen was opened and after satisfying her thirst she saw someone walking

beyond the window near the wall of the kitchen. The night was light and there had been a slight rain and

under the moonlight she could see a tall thin man wearing a shiny tight-fitting rubber suit dark in

color. The suit covered all the mans body and his head except for his face and hands. His face appeared

quite common, generally human, with white skin. Something resembling a hood covered his head. The

witness noticed the disproportional length of the humanoids hands. The man stood on the flowerbed

prodding the earth with something resembling a syringe, about a 1 meter in length and about 15-20cm

in diameter. The woman immediately thought that the stranger was a typical alien and dared to step

out of her house. The stranger immediately stopped what he was doing and moved away from the

flowerbed. The woman then asked, Why do you to come here? Why do you worry us? The alien

answered, We brought you a contagion. But you die slowly. So now we brought you another contagion,

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a more effective one (!!). The humanoid spoke in perfect Russian in a normal human voice. His behavior

was quite, but he never let the woman come close to him and began walking away towards the opposite

plot of land near the river. The woman followed him and screamed bitterly, Why is that, why? She

then heard a voice from afar, It must be done in that matter. The encounter lasted for about 2-3

minutes. In the morning decided that maybe the incident had been a dream and also failed to find any

traces in the flowerbed, and her husband slept throughout the whole episode. However the investigator

(Kazakov) found several trees that had been broken and dried up in what appeared to have been a

typical UFO landing site. (30)

Not to the left-out the following alleged incident involves a UFO crash and

retrieval, just one of the several such incidents that surfaced during the period:

Location. Near Kapustin Yar range, Astrakhan or Volgograd region, Russia

Date: August 12 1989 Time: night

Shot downed by another UFO during a dogfight an extraterrestrial disk was damaged by some type of

alien beam weapon. The craft lost control and fell at very high speed on a flat terrain outside the State

Central Test Range # 4 at Kapustin Yar. The crash was probably noticed by military personnel or reported

to them and a retrieval team was sent to the range. UFO observations over Kapustin Yar State Central

Test Range # 4 on the night of July 28-29 1989 had caused a stir (confirmed by authentic KGB

documents). This was another case and the military was informed about the downed disk-shaped object

partially embedded on the ground, in a tilted position. The disk was about 5 to 8 meters in diameter,

convexo, shaped like a lens. Its surface was ideally smooth, seamless, silver metallic, indicating evident

non-terrestrial technology, with a broad and slight not jutting gradual dome on top connected in the

same line with the rest of the hull and a broad cylindrical base. The bottom section and one side of the

object were substantially damaged by the hard impact, with numerous dents and a narrow curved crack

on its side. The incident was immediately reported to the Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshall

Dmitriy T. Yazov and the chairman of the KGB, etc. Soon a special order was issued by the Military Space

Forces of the USSR to the Commander of Kapustin Yar range to dispatch a retrieval team to the crash

site. (Mr. Pavel Laptinov of Saint Petersburg saw the written order himself in 1999).The operation was

conducted to isolate the rest of the military on the range from any knowledge of the incident, and to

enlist only specially selected people called from outside (mostly from Moscow) to the recovery and

research procedures. Under the cover of night the crash site was immediately cordoned off and the disk

was removed to an isolated hangar on the territory of Kapustin Yar Sate Central Range # 4. The object

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was then covered by anti-radiation foil & tarpaulin. The research site where the disk had been hidden

was almost completely isolated from the rest of the range in order to prevent any leakage of

information. The scientific research military team was gathered in top secrecy in a short amount of time

after the incident and had been dispatched by airplane to the range to study the disk inside the hangar.

The research team made different attempts to penetrate inside the disk, using different equipment.

They tried strong drills, diamond tip ones, gas cutting, but nothing helped, the hull appeared very

durable. Finally expensive and heavy laser equipment that was brought to the site helped. They

concentrated their efforts on the crack in the objects side and expanded it by laser. The hull consisted

of 4 layers. In about 20 days they made the hole large enough enabling the research team to penetrate

inside, who were dressed in protective suits and gas masks. Soon the research team finally penetrated

inside the craft. The object consisted of 3 levels inside, an engine compartment on the lower level; the

main power plant apparently self-destructed automatically. The main control room was on the 2nd

level

had a screen, a main control panel positioned in a semicircle with multicolored rectangular key-shaped

buttons 2 x 5 cm in size, like keys on a piano, positioned in 3 rows and 4 small round chairs. Identity of

the dome-shaped cylinder in the center of the cabins floor was later identified as a holographic

projector. The top level was like a garret, apparently an air lock. Four alien bodies were found on level 2,

all dead, mostly next to the chairs. The aliens were about 1.3, 1.4m in height, two were the same and a

third was slightly taller, about 1.5-1.6m. They had large hairless heads covered with helmets with 4

webbed fingers, greenish-yellow-brown skin, and thin long arms, like that of a monkey, long narrow legs

and necks, huge slanted frog like eyes covered by black eye lenses, just a protrusion with 2 openings on

the place of a nose, small and narrow slit-like mouth, tiny ears pressed to the rear part of their heads,

and long thin hands. They were dressed in tight-fitting and very durable suits of metallic silver color with

a violet tint, with belts and round circles on their chest areas. They had long elbow length gloves. The

suits were removed with difficulty, along with the silver-greenish boots and gloves. One of the bodies

was substantially damaged by the hard impact. In general, the beings were similar to those found in the

disk that crashed in Latvia in the early 1990s. In extreme secrecy the bodies were immediately removed

from the disk, placed inside the hangar and put into special support containers to preserve biological

materials. These containers were then loaded on a military cargo aircraft and moved to an aerodrome in

the Moscow area. From there the bodies were removed to a special KGB biomedical laboratory outside

the town of Solnechnogorsk northwest of Moscow (as well as other alien bodies from other UFO

crashes, Poland, Latvia, etc) where they were autopsied and hidden in underground bunkers by only 4

officers. During the autopsy yellow-greenish alien blood appeared quickly reacting with oxygen,

apparently copper-based. A Soviet engineering team succeeded in a detailed study of the disk from

inside, but the technology was hard to understand. Metal alloys were properly analyzed, different parts

were taken from the disk and moved outside the range to different military industrial and R&D

institutions for analyses (including Vnukovo alien material research underground lab southwest of

Moscow). The disk was not moved to the research centers in populated areas by reasons of secrecy. In

around 1991 or 1992 the disk had been removed from Kapustin Yar range to Novaya Zemlya Island base

in the Arctic region (a former nuclear State Central Range # 6) where is still hidden today in a specially

constructed artificial cave. The alien bodies were also taken there. Other UFOs have also been stored at

this location, including a small non-piloted probe which crashed and was recovered in Latvia in either

1991 or 1992. (31)

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The next case involved an encounter which allegedly occurred deep underground

in a mine and describes two unusual looking humanoids:

Location. Donetsk, Ukraine

Date: August 27 1989 Time: 03:00 a.m.

This fascinating encounter took place deep within a mine 1070 meters below the earths surface. An

electrical worker in one of the mines was working the night shift when he suddenly saw two strangers

standing at the end of the electric train depot. The witness stood behind the electric train control station

and soon after the strangers appeared he was seized by an uncontrollable fear, something that had

never occurred to him before. Using his instinct he hid behind the control box closely watching the

strangers. The figures moved slowly along the garage, stopping from time to time and studying different

areas and equipment located there. Finally the witness gathered up enough courage to confront the

strangers and walked out of his hiding place. Upon noticing him the strangers stopped. Trying to sound

as confident as possible the witness yelled at them, Who are you? What are you doing here? And he

began to walk slowly towards the pair. After taking several steps he looked closely and literally became

numb with fear as he realized that the entities standing before him were not human. They were short

creatures, dwarf-like with sallow facial complexions, and features he could not recognize as human.

Both were dressed in silvery colored coveralls and their chest they had lighted circles and luminous dots

circling around, like the screen of an oscillograph. After standing for a while, the entities turned around

and walked away, quickly moving away floating just above the ground. In several seconds they vanished

behind a bend on the underground tunnel. (32)

The last case to be summarized from August (there is no space or time to include

all the cases) also involved a military officer and a very complex abduction

scenario:

Location. Saratov Region, Russia

Date: end of August 1989 Time: 2105-2115

One of the military officers from the Shihany chemical weapons test range close to the Volga River was

returning home from duty in the control post when suddenly for no apparent reason as if hypnotized or

narcotized a feeling of calm fell over him. In a trance-like joyful state he walked a long distance from the

base and noticed a rainbow-like object in the air and heard a voice inside his head, Do not be afraid.

When he came closer he could see a dome giving off a dim bluish light. He then felt as if an invisible

escalator that took him into the air and sucked him into the middle of the dome-shaped object. He

appeared in a spacious circular room, arena-like and heard the voice again, Dont worry. You will not be

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harmed. At this point he felt afraid, and kept saying to himself that it was just a dream. But he again

heard the voice, No, this is no dream. Everything is real. When looked around he could see only wave-

like walls, as if they were made out of light. In the center of the room there was a kind of round table or

pedestal, with a heap of stones on it that gave off a myriad of rainbow colored light. He had the uncanny

feeling that time had stopped; he had no idea how long he had been in the room. Suddenly he noticed 2

silhouettes that seemed to appear out of nowhere. They did not approach from anywhere they just

appeared suddenly with a kind of fog or shroud enveloping them. He could see that they had gray-

greenish faces with a hint of nostrils (flat faces with an almost total absent of noses), huge almond-

shaped or slanted eyes. He shuddered with fear when he looked into the eyes, they resembled

bottomless dark pits. One entity was obviously a male and the other a female. Their faces were

completely expressionless, nor he sees the slightest movement of their eyes or lips. They stretched their

arms towards the witness as they approached him. He attempted to defend himself but to no avail. The

beings undressed him in quick confident movements, as if they had done it numerous times before.

The naked witness was put on his back, on a soft and warm couch. He noticed what appeared to be long

wiry needles in the alien mans hands; the entity then began inserting some of the needles into various

places on his body. The witness felt neither pain nor discomfort, he felt very relaxed as if was watching

the whole scene from another location. He could not remember how long this procedure lasted for.

Suddenly the male humanoid vanished into thin air. After that the alien woman removed what appeared

to be a shroud from her body, he was then able to see her very clearly. He could see that she was a rare

and amazing beauty, like a statuette made out of polished pistachio tree. She then laid next to him in an

obvious attempt to seduce him. He touched her belly and the skin felt warm and velvety. Then he

touched her breasts, and he found them to be resilient like touching suede-like skin. The alien woman

then touched him and he was amazed at how heavy her hands were, like if her bones were made out of

metal. Apparently reading his thoughts, she removed her hand immediately. But this only touch from

the alien woman was enough for the witness, it felt like an electric charge, he could not resist her any

longer and had sex with her. It was slightly quicker than with a normal earth woman. When the sex act

was over she enveloped herself with the shroud again and vanished in plain sight. Get up and dress he

heard the voice in his mind again. He did what he was told and again an invisible escalator removed him

out of the dome-shaped craft. The rainbow colored object then seemed to compress into a whitish

globe the size of a watermelon, gave off a blinding flash and vanished. When the officer looked at his

watch he realized that only 15 minutes had gone by. After the contact the witness lost 23 kilograms of

his weight and his blood pressure and health became normal. On several occasions he attempted to tell

his story but each time an inner voice prevented him from doing so. (33)

Then came September and high-strangeness was rampant throughout the

former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe no more bizarre were the occurrences

in and around Voronezh Russia. The following summarized cases are the

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Voronezh close encounters and landings known to researchers, some very well

known and some not at all:

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: middle of September 1989 Time: 2000

Igor Yagudin was en route to his job at the local airport had taken a shortcut through a ravine and was

climbing up the path that led out of it when he noticed a bright greenish glow to his left. He went to

investigate and found a hovering green-colored sphere that remained motionless just above the ground.

He walk towards the sphere and heard some footsteps nearby, he looked and saw a very tall, well-

proportioned man in a dark silvery suit. The humanoids entire head was covered to the shoulders by a

large helmet with a rectangular visor. The helmet appeared to contain some type of liquid and no facial

features could be seen. A faint glow appeared on the humanoids visor and something made the witness

look in the direction of the sphere. On the sphere a screen had appeared and on it images of various

nuclear power plants, all known to the witness, the plants all appeared to be undergoing some type of

emergency and explosions were evident. After awhile the images faded and the witness lost

consciousness. He later woke up with a slight headache and both the sphere and the humanoid were

nowhere in sight. (34)

Leaving the Voronezh area briefly I am including a case that appears to have

been some sort of UFO crash after what witnesses described as a dog fight in

the sky:

Location. Zaostravka, Perm region, Russia

Date: September 16 1989 Time: night

North of this location witnesses watched several disc-shaped objects apparently engaged in some kind

of dogfight with another gold-colored disc after several explosions in the area the electrical power in

the city was turned off. The gold colored disc was seen to crash into a local swamp. At the location of

the craft several military personnel approached the site, but the disc had apparently crashed into an

isolated location impossible to access. The zone was declared forbidden by the local military and several

families were displaced and a barbwire was placed in the area. Aircraft flying over the area reported

severe equipment malfunctions and were diverted to other flight paths. The downed object was further

described as mushroom in shape, with a greenish-gold cupola and a matt black rim and a narrow base.

(35)

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After the brief sojourn into unknown territory we return to the strangeness

around Voronezh:

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: September 21 1989 Time: 2030

Several young boys watched a large sphere land on a park; two tall humanoids wearing silvery outfits

and large black boots briefly emerged. A smaller robot-like entity accompanied them. Landing tracks

were reportedly found. (36)

Figure 7. One of the best known images of the Voronezh encounters.

Location. Voronezh, Russia

Date: September 23 1989 Time: after 2000

5th

grade schoolgirl Natasha Krylova and her friends Lena Sorokina, Natasha Voropaeva, Sveta Ryzhkova

and Yulya Sholohova saw a white Moon-sized spot of light that appeared in the sky. It soon became clear

that it was a globe-shaped object with black stick-like protrusions and lights around it. The object was

flying towards the city park, and then it began hovering over the ground and then landed. Three tall

humanoid beings appeared in the area where the UFO had landed, two were of the same height, very

tall; the third was even taller than the other two. The strangest thing was that the humanoids were not

seen to have come out of the craft, but had suddenly appeared out of nowhere standing near the craft,

right in front of the childrens eyes. The aliens were dressed in blue cloaks and were walking in midair

low over the ground. They did not converse among each other. After walking for some time towards a

nearby road they confronted a group of about 6-8 people that were going to the park, among them the

Nedosekins family. Then a boy named Alyesha Panin reported seeing the landed UFO with 4 landing legs

jutting from it. The landing props were grayish or black in color and the object was light. Bright light

emitted from beneath, from where the hatch had opened. 2 entities moved towards the boy, and a third

alien remained behind next to the UFO apparently guarding it. The light coming from the hatch gradually

died out. When the boys saw the aliens walking towards him strangely he was not afraid, but

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experienced a headache. Then he heard the girls screaming. However he stayed around for some more

time but the aliens vanished. Later the boy and the girls returned to the location and heard a loud

humming sound and then ran back home in order to obtain additional witnesses. The first part of the

episode had lasted for about 15 minutes.

Soon a larger group of boys and girls returned to the UFO landing place. Then one of the creatures

raised its hand and something descended on it, shaped like a shiny beak, the shiny object was emitting

light and had appeared from nowhere. Then the entity pull down its hand and the shiny object remained

hovering in midair and then descended towards the earth and vanished. At this point the children

became afraid and began crying. The entities then moved back to the landed globe. However the object

did not fly away, but disappeared in front of their eyes. Apparently many of the adults had seen nothing.

(37)

Figure 8. Voronezh alien

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: September 23 1989 Time: 2100

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5th

grade student from school # 33, Roma Torshin was returning home through the city park when he

noticed a large reddish globe with a dark hatch in the sky. Diameter of the object by his estimation was

about 5 meters. Before landing, the object emitted 4 landing legs or props. Several seconds later the

hatch opened, a stairway or ladder then moved out and a robotic entity rolled out of it. The robot

was of chest-height of an adult man. The robot resembled a large TV-set with buttons on it with visible

rigid legs and arms jutting from it. The boy discerned fingers on the robots hands that were constantly

moving. The robot was dressed in a bronze-colored suit and black boots, resembling high jack-boots

with rolled tops. As appeared to Roma, the robot then noticed him, but did not have any visible reaction

to his presence. Then an alien being came out of the globe, about 2 meters in height. The humanoid had

an oval-shaped head with 3 eyes; a mouth and nose were not visible. The color of its face was dark

brown, with very smooth skin. The humanoid was dressed in a bronze-colored tight-fitting suit. After

some time the alien and the robot returned to the spacecraft, the hatch closed emitting a clasping

sound and the UFO sharply zoomed up, emitting something like sparkles from beneath. During the

whole encounter the witness experienced a very strong sense of fear but could walk or run away. (38)

Figure 9. Voronezh alien with weapon?

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: September 26 1989 Time: 1900

A young witness saw an object with portholes on the ground. A figure more than 3 meters tall emerged

from it. The entity had two large eyes on its head and a red light on top. On its chest it had a silvery disk

with three round spots of different colors. Below that it had a rectangular box that protruded out. The

being also wore large silvery boots. (39)

Location. Voronezh, Russia

Date: September 26 1989 Time: 2000

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A young student named Sergey Goloszhapov a pupil at the local technical college # 13 after finishing

playing football (soccer) was returning home with two other boys, Dima Ligachyev and Slava Kovtunov.

They were walking through the park towards the local preventive clinic when suddenly they saw a

small entity near a tree, it remotely resembled a small child and the witnesses also noticed that the tree

had a broken branch. The entity was about 1 meter in height and was completely black in color; the

witnesses could not see the humanoids face. When they came closer Sergey began speaking to the

humanoid, saying, Come here. The entity seemed puzzled at first and then began climbing up the tree.

The boy also began climbing up the tree after the entity but it suddenly vanished in plain sight. The boys

became frightened and ran home. (40)

Figure 10. Another iconic Voronezh image.

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: September 27 1989 Time: 1830

Several children playing at a local park first observed a pinkish glow approaching in the sky, as it came

above them they could see that it was a deep red ball shaped object. The object flew around in circles

for a few minutes then left. It then returned, hovered briefly, and descended very close to the ground. A

hatch opened and a heavyset figure appeared. The being moved very slowly and looked around, he had

a very small head resembling that of a doorknob set in between its shoulders, it had three luminous

eyes, the middle one moving around like a radar. On his chest there was a shield-like object. The being

then closed the hatch and the object landed gently on four legs. The hatch opened again and three huge

humanoids with small knob-like heads stepped out. These wore silvery overalls and bronze colored

boots. A strange robot-like creature accompanied the giants. All four of them walked around the object

several times. A beam of light came out of one of the beings chest and hit the ground creating several

luminous triangles that later faded. At one point the craft and beings became briefly invisible then

reappeared. One of the boys screamed out in fear. Then one of the beings looked at the boy, pointing a

tube at him, it hit the boy with a luminous beam that made him disappeared. The boy later reappeared

after the beings and the objects had gone. Later information revealed that on the crafts hull and on the

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landing prop of another craft was the letter or symbol Zhe reported to have been an UMMO like

sign. (41)

Location. Voronezh, Russia

Date: September 30 1989 Time: 2045

Natasha Gladkova an 8th

grade student was with some of her friends near the fence of the kindergarten

near the city park when they heard a strong humming sound. At first they thought it was an airplane,

but then they saw a flying globe encircled by lights on the edges. The UFO created a strong wind, flew

over the park and landed on a glade. Several minutes later humanoid figures appeared near the landed

UFO. Some of the aliens were dressed in black cloaks and the rest wore silver colored cloaks. In total

there were 5-6 humanoids. They walked out of the landed globe. As seemed to the witnesses, the aliens

had no heads. Numerous buttons were seen on their cloaks. The aliens were of average height. They

began walking around the globe, apparently examining the environs. The witnesses heard no sounds

and attempted to come closer but the aliens suddenly vanished, disappearing in plain sight. The globe

the rose up into the air emitted sparkles and disappeared. (42)

Location. Voronezh Russia

Date: late September 1989 Time: evening

Young Denis Valyerevich Murzenko was taking a walk alone when he saw a pink egg shaped craft

overhead; it was emitting bright beams of light from inside. The object descended closer and began to

swing from side to side like a falling leaf. At this point two supports came out from underneath. Denis

could now see the outline of a figure inside the craft, the being seemed to be about 4 feet tall, and

appeared to have an elderly looking face. As the craft kept descending lower and lower the witness

became frightened and ran off. He turned to look and saw bright beams of light coming from the craft;

the object was also emitting some type of strange sound resembling electronic music. (43)

Next comes October which unbelievably surpassed September in the amount of

reports and high strangeness incidents, the following are some of the most

bizarre in my estimation:

Location. Altay Province, West Siberia, Russia

Date: first half of October 1989 Time: evening

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In this mountainous area two 10th

grade school girls were returning to their village from an agricultural

farm on their motorcycle when at about 1km distant from the village the motorcycle engine suddenly

died. All attempts to re-start the engine failed. So they decided to leave the motorcycle in the bushes

until the next day and began looking for shelter. Suddenly they spotted an elongated object in the sky

that was emitting light. When they looked at it more closely they realized that it was a large object

somewhat shaped like a shuttlecock. The object then initiated a sharp descent shedding light all

around the area, both witnesses became frightened but soon both behaved in totally opposite ways,

one became extremely scared and began to run away, while the other became extremely curious and

approached the supposed landing site. The girl that was running away suddenly heard a voice in her

head, Dont be afraid, you will receive information. She stopped and returned to where her curious

friend was. The UFO was hovering at about 8-10 meters above the ground. A beam of light was then

projected to earth, at first the beam was dull but soon became brighter and brighter. The girls were

under the impression that the craft was somehow supported by the beam of light. Seconds later a tall

humanoid entity stepped out of the craft. The man was about 3 meters in height with beautiful features,

and wearing a tight-fitting silvery overall. His head was encased in what appeared to be some type of

luminous halo or aura. The alien man then began to speak and at the same time the halo above his

head began to pulsate, changing brightness and color. The girls heard his voice not from his mouth but

inside their heads. The conversation lasted for about 5 minutes and both witnesses did not remember

what they talked about only that the alien man told them something very interesting. But they

remember very well that their next meeting with the alien was going to be in the near future. The alien

the re-entered the beam of light and the object zoomed up vertically into the sky disappearing into the

sky and soon resembled a star. No one in the village believed the girls story. (44)

Location. Volga region, Russia

Date: October 1989 Time: noon

In a village settled by Germans---immigrants from Kazakhstan, resettled there during the war, the

witness Richard Ungefuga was mowing a cornfield on an E-281 combine. His partner loaded the allotted

limit of corn and left. Richard remained in the field alone and decided to take a well deserved break he

sat in the cab looking around. Suddenly from somewhere came a sharp whistle and in the sky appeared

a ball that approached changing into a sphere-shaped object which in a few minutes descended and

landed on a nearby field next to the water pump. The object was green in color and was about 3 meters

in diameter, there appeared to be a sort of glow on the top. A hatch opened on the object and a figure

no more than 5 feet in height emerged. In the meantime Richard watched from a hundred feet away.

From that distance the object first appeared to be a helicopter. Surprised, the witness exited the

combine cab and in an unhurried pace walked towards the object. He froze in place when he realized

that the object was not a helicopter, but a perfect round ball and next to it stood a short pilot dressed

all in white. On his head it wore a helmet with a red antenna. The figure stood motionless with his hands

on the sides. The next moment, according to Ungefuga a second pilot exited the ball; this one was very

similar to the first one except it did not have a red antenna. The two short men approached the witness

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and stood next to him briefly and then went back to their flying craft and re-entered through the

opened hatch which immediately closed, before the hatch closed the witness was able to see a bright

yellow light shining out. Quietly the ball rose to the air and on the bottom of the craft the witness saw

three legs sticking out, apparently landing supports. A bright flame shot out from between the legs. The

object then flew away at very high s